I guess you donot recal the stroll John McCain took in one of the neighborhoods of Baghdad about two years ago,wearing a flak vest. During that walk he spoke of how safe the streets had become and “they wer as safe as any street in America (or, as I recall, words to that effect).

When the cameas pulled back, you saw that, in addition to his flak vest, the town swauare was blocked off to all, a brigade of troops were around him and three attack helicopters were hovering over head.

It was one of the more blatant propoganda photo-ops that Senator mcCain did on behalf othe Bush Administration in the run up to the 2006 congressional elections in the US.

I saw pictures of his stroll in iraq this week and he still has the brigade of soldiers to demonstrate how “safe” it is. but I did not see any helicopters overhead. Perhaps they just learned to hover out of the camera angles.

re: “He intends to meet with Iraqi leadership, who might get a glimpse of the McCain temper for their foot-dragging on reconciliation”

Not a chance.

Senator McCain is pledged to the George w. Bush’s “third term in office”. If he is elected, the administratoin of “President McCain” will be indistinguishable from that of President Bush, both domestically and internationally, except that we will add a war in (three times larger) Iran to the one in Iraq.

We’ll hear a lot of stern words to the government of iraq, all spoken at press conferences in the United States. When the civil war heats up again, we will have something that will look like an escelaiton: However, since “Surge” has been used, we will hear another word. Perhaps “uptic for Victory”. After all, most of the Bush Administration’s efforts in Iraq have been Pr campaigns in the US, so I would expect no different from a President McCain.

And Conservatives will get to spend four more years of providing alibis and declaring “he’s no Conservative”, until 2012, when it will come time for them to fall in line and vote to re-elect McCain.

Just my prediction.

Huh?

Plans for Iraq:
Senator McCain: The Surge
Senator Obama: The Retreat

Hmmmmmm,